The Bird Stuck In The Ceiling

This is the time of the year where season changes. Winter is gone, the trees are blooming and the allergy season starts. Spring is here and it reaches onto 80 degrees on some day. My office building has yet to run off the heat and turn on the cool air. The building management specifically told us not to open the windows and most of the windows are painted shut, but in this extreme heat, we broke off the paint and crank them open to make the air circulate.

So one day in the middle of last week, we came into the office to some open windows and an open ceiling tile. When I asked what has happened, the staff and volunteers told me that a bird had flown up between the drop ceiling. There was a little *tweet* sound coming from the ceiling every now and again. Some tried to use food to lure it out and others tried to whistle and "talk" to the bird.

As the weekend came and went, I was surprised to come back to the tweeting. Apparently the bird managed to stay alive throughout the weekend. "Doesn't it need food?" I asked. "Oh, one of the staff put some food up there." our office manager replied. "What about water?" I persisted, but the bugger lasted the whole week. We did climb up the ladder and used a flashlight to look around and we didn't see it anywhere. I was convinced that maybe the office next door got a new bird, even though no animals were allowed.

Well, what do you know? This morning when we came in the office the maintenance people were around and they told us the tweeting is from an emergency exit door alarm that's running out of battery. The whole office felt extremely foolish.

I admit, I was one of the whistlers. Shame, shame... lol